Devika

PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: I studied. smart cities & urban control rooms using a sociotechnical lens.

[Gaurav Mittal @geo_mittal]

New paper out.

I argue that so-called “informal” transport isn’t unregulated—it’s governed through local, bottom-up systems that organise services and resist top-down reforms.

Rethinking formal vs informal as co-produced, not opposites.

https://t.co/4VeeAWa7u6

[Gautam Bhan @GautamBhan80]

Admissions to our fully funded, interdisciplinary, full time PhD are open. Details in image and on https://t.co/Du0fqqWpbR. Check it out!

[Devika @DevikaPrksh]

Dubai diasporas, transnational remittances and intimate infrastructures of finance in India - Siddharth Menon, 2025 https://t.co/itDpBt1ZCj

[Devika @DevikaPrksh]

@squarehaunting they won't. don't worry.

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

Purwins and Keck uncover the intricate ways in which #bureaucrats, alongside non-human actors, shape and mediate the socio-material networks that influence the future of contemporary cities
https://t.co/sXZJciLU1P
#UrbanResilience #ClimateAdaptation

[Purva Dewoolkar @purvadewoolkar]

Just published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space!

This paper examines Mumbai's unfinished sewage infrastructure and deepens our understanding of how infrastructural 'delays' are lived.

Link: https://t.co/dVY9o1oyzV

#UrbanStudies #Infrastructure #Mumbai

[ಪೂರ್ಣಾ ರವಿ | Poorna Ravi @prism_colours]

Uma ma'am's account and the work that's happening at rural libraries is such a source of hope, strength and joy!

And ufff, these images of women leisurely reading newspapers/books, pure joy ♥

[Anto Mohsin, PhD @antomohsin]

UWP redesigned its website and is offering 30% discount on almost all its print book until May 10. My book is one of them. https://t.co/N0xke7AzhC

[Urban Affairs Association @UAAnews]

Assistant Professor in Urban Planning / Design (National University of Singapore) https://t.co/a1Rd4rABC1

[Ketaki Chowkhani, PhD @chowkhani]

Those in Manipal, do attend this exciting conference on Urban Futures held on 5th and 6th March, 2025 at Manipal Centre for Humanities!

[Devika @DevikaPrksh]

The first article from my PhD project is now out and about (in pre-proof) and open access: Understanding decision-making in smart city policy implementation
https://t.co/Xx3xWYxzZl

[Devika @DevikaPrksh]

Great news! Happy to have contributed to this volume.

[amrita pande @Tiyathetwit]

Happy news to start the new year: my edited volume Birth Controlled: Selective Reproduction and Neoliberal Eugenics in South Africa and India was honoured at the 2024  AAA awards. Congrats to the wonderful contributors! @Sree_socscience @DrRChadwick @GoverningI @ManchesterUP

[Environment & Planning F @envplanf]

New online first article by Persis Taraporevala:

"Smart ignorance: Instrumentalising useful unknowns to bureaucratise and rescale power in the city"

https://t.co/lzc2GthVja

[Shivani Kava/ಶಿವಾನಿ @kavashivani]

IIM-Bangalore’s Director publicly disclosed a Dalit professor’s caste in a mass email circulated within the institution, denied him equal opportunities, finds inquiry.

https://t.co/7XwJA5e2Pr

[Subina Shrestha @iamsubina]

Thrilled to be sharing that i am defending my PhD thesis "Sustainability beyond optimization" on the 17th December @UiBCET ! It's a public defense, and will be streamed online. If you'd like to join, drop me a message!

[Devika @DevikaPrksh]

wish i could get some idli vada

[Bejoy K Thomas (ബിജോയ്) @bejoykt]

Reason for desk rejection:
"I receive too many papers about India".

[Devika @DevikaPrksh]

@Catherineoscopy I have licked my Himalayan salt lamp. It was salty.

[Dept of Political Science, University of Hyderabad @uohpolsci]

We're Listening, and We're Hiring!

Department of Political Science invites aplications, from eligible Indian Citizens and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) for the appointment to various faculty positions under the Special Recruitment Drive – 5.

[Dr. Anna Jackman @ahjackman]

Are you interested in doing a PhD that explores: drone geographies, political geographies of airspace, feminist geopolitics/ political geographies of technology, or geographies of verticality and volume? If so, I'd love to hear from you! Info: https://t.co/hiSGSQWd53 @UniRdg_GES